Giant Megatooth Model

A life-sized model suspended over visitors at the San Diego Natural History Museum shows what an ancient shark, the Giant Megatooth (Carcharodon megalodon), might have looked like.

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Photograph of the model of a Giant Megatooth Shark, taken from the front..
© François Gohier/San Diego Natural History Museum

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Do you mean "... might have

Do you mean "... might have looked like suspended over visitors at the San Diego Natural History Museum," had alien beings been able to hover the animal over such a structure, if such a structure was available back then, over which to hover such an animal?

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 11:49am.

Touché! We have fixed the

Touché! We have fixed the syntax of the caption--thanks!

Submitted by Ocean Portal Team on Mon, 08/09/2010 - 2:39pm.

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